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Quincy House and Cabot House organizers first satisfied requests for specific Santees before completing the pairing, while Houses like Kirkland made their matching process completely random...
...other business last night, the council approved a Residential Committee report on the freshman housing lottery, weighing the current system of "first choice maximization" against a proposed random lottery...
...British National Health Service practices triage by delay. For example, it provides heart transplants (110 this year) entirely at government expense, but there are waiting lists of up to a year for all such complex surgery. Though the principle of first come, first served is fair in its random way, rather like a London bus queue, the delay inevitably kills off a certain number of applicants...
...course, more professors acknowledge that word gets out anyway, that most historians around the country, to pick a random field, know which of their number Harvard is looking...
...variously predicted for the country's first trip to the polls since the 1979 revolution that overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Indeed, the Nicaraguan election mood was one of indifference, as citizens lined up to make their choices, then ink their thumbs as a guarantee against double voting. Random visits to polling sites seemed to show that participation by the country's 1.6 million voters was less than the roughly 82% turnout that the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front claimed as evidence of the election's success...